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The council was made a unitary authority on 1 April 1997, regaining its independence from the county council. The way this change was implemented was to create a new non-metropolitan county of Darlington covering the same area as the existing borough, but with no separate county council; instead the existing borough council took on county ...
Council Tax is a local taxation system used in England, Scotland and Wales. It is a tax on domestic property, which was introduced in 1993 by the Local Government Finance Act 1992, replacing the short-lived Community Charge (also known as "poll tax"), which in turn replaced the domestic rates.
Darlington Borough Council elections (4 P) E. Education in the Borough of Darlington (1 C, 3 P) P. People from the Borough of Darlington (4 C, 9 P) Places in the ...
Shire Hall, Old Elvet: Council's headquarters 1898–1963. The council is based at County Hall at Aykley Heads in the northern suburbs of the city of Durham. The building was purpose-built for the council and was completed in 1963. [26] When first created the council met at the courthouse on Old Elvet, which at the time was known as Shire Hall.
The town hall initially served as the headquarters of Darlington County Borough Council [11] and remained the local seat of government when the enlarged Darlington District Council was formed in 1974. [12] It went on to become the headquarters of the new unitary authority, Darlington Borough Council, in 1997. [13]
Mr Darlington, who was born in Panama but has US citizenship, was caught up in a traffic jam on Tuesday on a highway 55 miles west of Panama City, caused by protesters campaigning against the ...
The old town hall was the headquarters of Darlington Borough Council until it moved to the new town hall in Feethams in 1970. The complex consists of three separate buildings, all of which are Grade II listed : the old town hall, [ 1 ] the market hall [ 2 ] and the clock tower.
A shopper checks out an item in a Target store in Pittsburgh on Monday, Jan. 23, 2023. (Gene J. Puskar/AP)